The recycling company, Veolia (UK) has been fined £3m after a man died and another was seriously injured while decommissioning a North Sea gas rig Great Yarmouth. Credit: Health and Safety Executive (HSE) 

The Health and Safety Executive found that Veolia (UK) had not carried out proper risk assessments and planning before the workers began dismantling a gas rig.

Company fined £3m over demolition worker's death on gas rig

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Police were contacted shortly after 5am this morning with a report of a collision involving a single vehicle.

Man dies following crash near Sellafield

The collision happened on Cwmbran drive in Llantarnam at about 9.25am on 19 September. 

Man dies at scene of crash involving a lorry and a car

85 year old driver dies in road crash in Eastleigh, police are appealing for witnesses and say no other vehicle was involved.

Elderly driver, 85, dies in crash on motorway junction

Members of the community gathered in the town square as the hearse brought the body of Dlava, who had just completed her Junior Cert, to her family home.

Hundreds of people form guard of honour for Debs ball crash victim

Three people in a BMW were declared dead at the scene and a fourth person taken to hospital with serious injuries has now died.

Fourth person dies after crash involving two cars on country road

A stock picture of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) logo badge in Derry City in Northern Ireland.

Police received reports from a passing motorist citing concerns for the woman's safety. 

Hunt for driver after woman pedestrian dies in hit-and-run

A 19-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries in the incident in Doncaster.

Crash leaves 20-year-old woman dead and three seriously injured

An investigation into a fatal plane crash in Cumbria has found that a number of shortcomings in preparation for the flight contributed to the accident.

'A number of shortcomings' led to fatal Cumbrian plane crash

The 18-year-old driver of a Renault Megane Scenic died in the crash which also injured two of his four passengers

Teenage driver killed in Bank Holiday Monday crash which injured two passengers

Police have named the pregnant mother who died in a road traffic collision in Northampton  along with her unborn child.

Police name pregnant woman killed in crash in Northampton

A school bus was involved in a fatal crash where seventeen Ysgol y Preseli pupils were injured

Headteacher thanks those who helped her pupils after fatal crash

Two men from the north east died when the Super Puma helicopter they were travelling in ditched into the sea off Shetland in 2013.

Inquiry begins into Shetland helicopter crash that killed two from north east

A man in his twenties has died following a collision in Filey

At around 5pm today a black Suzuki motorbike and a double decker bus collided on Stonepit Lane where a man in his twenties from Filey, died at the scene. 

Police appeal for witnesses after fatal collision on Stonepit Lane in Filey

The man, out walking with a partner, landed on to rocks as he fell down the main footpath from Swirls car park to Helvellyn summit.


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